FUND MANAGERS

Funds management

Most global fund managers have maintained a neutral view when it comes to their allocation to bonds and equities for the remainder of 2012, according to the latest HSBC F...

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Editorial

Morningstar's Tom Whitelaw outlines the differences between boutique and institutional fund managers with the aim of dispelling popular misconceptions....

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Funds management

Performance volatility and concentration issues continue to plague the Australian real estate investment trusts (A-REITs) sector....

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Funds management

The property securities sector produced modest gains over the past 12 months, but continues to face volatility and concentration issues, SQM Research has found....

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Rate the raters

Standard & Poor’s (S&P) – a name synonymous with credit ratings and research the world over – will no longer have an Australian ratings and fund services presence from 1 ...

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Rate the raters

Lonsec has once again snatched the Money Management Research House of the Year title. However, Morningstar and Mercer are catching up....

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Funds management

Modern portfolio theory still has a place in portfolio construction, but fund managers have been taking the wrong approach, according to Pinnacle Advisory head of researc...

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Financial planning

Clime Australian Value Fund joins Macquarie Wrap platform....

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Financial planning

The financial services regulator has identified conflicts of interest present in asset consultant business models, which it said needed to be managed properly....

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Financial planning

Calastone wins through on Ausbil Dexia connection....

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Financial planning

Financial planners and their clients have to supplant platform providers and fund managers as the price setters in the advice equation, according to Colonial First State ...

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Financial planning

A financial services lawyer has been able to outline how privacy legislation impacts on the selling of financial advisers' client books in the wake of Money Management's ...

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Financial planning

DST Global Solutions is touting the advantages of the corporate actions solution it is developing with XSP on its HiPortfolio platform....

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Financial planning

With the ASX considering the final look of its new listed managed fund service, questions remain over whether Aqua II will attract wholesale fund managers to make the lea...

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Financial planning

A Melbourne-based financial adviser has hit a hurdle in his purchase of a large book of clients, with two of the fund managers involved in the purchase requesting confirm...

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